Prison Truth

William J. Drummond is Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. His award-winning career includes stints at the Louisville Courier-Journal, where he covered the civil rights movement, and the Los Angeles Times, where he was a local reporter, then bureau chief in New Delhi and Jerusalem, and later a Washington correspondent. He was appointed a White House Fellow by then president Gerald R. Ford and later became Jimmy Carter’s associate press secretary. He joined NPR in 1977 and became the founding editor of Morning Edition. At UC Berkeley, Drummond was awarded the 2016 Leon A. Henkin Award for his distinguished service and exceptional commitment to the educational development of students from groups who are underrepresented in the academy.

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PART I A primer on prison
1. Overview
2. Prison Voices Heard
3. Soledad Brothers
4. Kennedy to Cleaver
5. The Primary Election
6. The Johnny Cash Myth
7. A West Oakland Murder
8. The Lee Commission and the “Tough-on-Crime” Era
9. The San Quentin News
10. The Founding Fathers
11. Media Recognition
12. Sam Robinson
13. Race in the Prison Newsroom
14. The Key Players

PART II The characters in the newsroom
15. Arnulfo García
16. Glenn Bailey
17. Juan Haines
18. Rahsaan Thomas
19. Richard (Bonaru) Richardson
20. Watani Stiner
21. Kevin Sawyer
22. Asians in the Newsroom
23. Aly Tamboura
24. Little Nick’s Story
25. He Came to Me in a Dream

PART III How it all came together
26. The Press in Prison
27. Philanthropy
28. The Forums
29. A New Narrative

PART IV Moving forward
30. Journalism and Rehabilitation
31. The Campus and the Prison
32. Is This Scalable?
33. The Hero with a Thousand Faces
34. Epilogue

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